SOCIOLINGUISTICS OF ITALIAN

L-FIL-LET/12 - 9 CFU - 2° Semester

Teaching Staff

GIOVANNA MARINA ALFONZETTI

Course Structure

The course is structured in dialogical and frontal lectures, individual and group erxercises, self-evalutative reflections concerning the several contents dealt with


Detailed Course Content

  1. Definition of Sociolinguistics: scope, postulates and methods.

  2. The sociolinguistic repertoire of contemporary Italian: standard and neo-standard; written and spoken; Italian in mass media; geographical and social varieties of Italian.
  3. Communicative strategies: code switching and polylanguaging. Definition and functions.

 

Textbook Information

A. Introduction to Sociolinguistics (3 CFU): Texts:

- Berruto Gaetano, Prima lezione sociolinguistica, Bari, Laterza, 2006 (189 pp.)

- D’Agostino Mari, Sociolinguistica dell’Italia contemporanea, Il Mulino 2007: Capitolo I: Storie (pp. 13-22) e Capitolo 11: Progettare una ricerca, pp. 215-235.

B. Italian sociolinguistic repertoire (3 CFU). Text:

Berruto Gaetano, Sociolinguistica dell’italiano contemporaneo, Roma, Carocci, 2012 updated reprint (280 pp.)

  1. Communicative strategies (3 CFU). Text:

Alfonzetti, Giovanna, Parlare italiano e dialetto in Sicilia, Palermo, Centro di Studi Filologici e Linguistici siciliani 2017 (100 pp.

 

The scheme of all lectures and other teaching materials will be found on STUDIUM



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